The ATS puts the final touches on the profile, ensuring no gaps are left. The profile then goes through multiple quality checks to ensure it meets the highest quality standards for elite college admissions.

An innovative, data-backed personality assessment helps us identify preliminary personality traits and behavioral tendencies. We then leverage these insights to guide our mentorship approach.

Time permitting, you will work on one last powerful capstone project to deepen your degree of impact and tie up loose ends to strengthen existing projects.

Through weekly one-on-one sessions with our highly-qualified consultants, we provide you with personal attention for project guidance, profile development, and overall emotional counseling.

We conduct weekly interactive workshops on all the nuances of the international college application process, including essay writing, LORs, activity lists, and interviews, from the perspective of an admissions officer.

We provide recommendations for summer programs, support you to compose application essays, help you make the most of your experience, and make an impression on your professor (who may offer to provide an LOR).

The Athena Research Program and our various tech mentors will help develop your technology skills and create a diverse array of tech projects—from building apps and websites, working with AI/ML to constructing autonomous robots.

With over 25 companies in the database, we identify internships, apprenticeships, and research-assistant opportunities, and connect you with a network of NGOs and companies across industries for meaningful opportunities aligned with your areas of interest.

Our years of experience, combined with our robust database, enable us to curate a concise, thoughtful, and truly customized college list, that considers rankings, culture, location, career prospects. Our balanced approach helps us produce high-quality applications while maximizing the likelihood of admission.

We help you identify recommenders based on who will provide the most powerful testimony, and then we’ll guide you in composing brag sheets that your teachers can use to draft LoRs.

We conduct monthly family meetings to make key strategic decisions pertaining to college applications, provide an overarching view of your progress, and share a macro-level plan of action for subsequent months.

The students receive personalized end-to-end guidance for the essays listed below:

US Common App Essay

• UC Personal Insight Questions
• US College-Specific Supplement Essays
• UK Personal Statement (PS): 5 colleges
• Canada Essays: 8 colleges
• Application Essays/SOP for other countries: Singapore, Hong Kong, Continental Europe, etc.

We provide intensive prep through mock interviews for students to make a memorable impression on their interviewer. We invite Athena alumni to host webinar series and conduct one-on-one US and UK specific simulations.